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A new social welfare payment for employees and the self-employed who have lost employment due to Covid 19. A simple, quick, online payment. [This is different to the Wage Subsidy scheme which is operated by the Revenue Commissioners and seeks to maintain the relationship between the employer and employee]
The communications regulator has approved plans to release extra radio spectrum to add capacity for mobile phone and broadband connectivity.
The regulator plans to release radio spectrum in the 700MHz and the 2.6GHz bands to allow mobile operators to meet increased voice and data traffic.
It also said it has liberalised the use of the existing 2.1GHz band so that it can be used for 4G connectivity and other technology, rather than just 3G.
A cross-platform teaching initiative has been developed by RTÉ, Ireland's National Broadcaster, at short notice with the support of the Department of Education. It is aimed at students in primary school.
Akkure, an Irish digital health start-up, has launched the ‘COVIDMedBot’, an online free personalised risk assessment and guideline tool for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Akkure is based at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs at University College Dublin.
The Health Service Executive's Digital Academy is collaborating with medtech companies and start-ups to provide agile solutions to Covid-19 problems faced in clinical settings. Examples include pulse oximeters integrated with applications that can be remotely monitored for oxygen depletion in patients (thereby requiring hospital admission) and working with roboticists to develop sterilisation robots using UV wavelengths that can kill Covid19 but have sensory reaction when humans enter its…
A new online portal was built and developed in four days to allow General Practitioners and healthcare providers to treat people remotely to help protect patients and healthcare workers.
Be On Call for Ireland is an initiative of the Health Service Executive. It seeks to bring medically and clinically trained individuals and experienced support staff back into the health service to help out during the crisis. Over 60,000 people have applied to volunteer.
Online and mobile dashboard containing data regarding cases of Covid-19 in Ireland
The Public Service Temporary Assignment Scheme is a whole-of-Government approach to tackling shortages of staff in key areas. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform issued a circular (instrument in administrative law) which allows for thousands of staff to be temporarily assigned from anywhere in the public service to areas requiring manpower (e.g. contact tracing, unemployment supports, business support schemes etc.) The Public Appointments Service has built a digital platform to…